A ‘film era’ moment
Posted on April 21, 2007
Filed Under All, Photos, Technology |
As I took the bottom off the M8 after our walk this morning, I had a sudden fear that I was about to expose the film. Holy 20-years-ago, Batman! The M8’s SD chip is unlikely to be affected by inrushing photons, as a roll of un-rewound TRi-X would have been, once upon a time.
Funny reflex, I guess, caused by the ‘baseplate ritual.’ the Leica’s pop-the-baseplate system was old school and hard to use in film days much less in the digital era. I wonder how many times I opened a Leica while I was working as a press photographer? The M8 really is such a relative digital dinosaur, and its magnesium and brass chassis feels like a film camera.
The odd thing, it occurs to me, is that features (like an easy-to-access SD chip) on the earlier Leica Digilux 2 are missing on the M8. The designer really had to work to go backward to the film era models. Go figure…
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